• Greece: End Inhumane Detention Conditions for Migrants
    Press release
    Dec 6, 2010
    Greek officials should immediately transfer migrants from overcrowded and inhumane detention sites in the Evros region to an empty facility on Samos Island and protect the 120 unaccompanied migrant children among them. These migrants have crossed into Greece from Turkey in recent weeks and months and come from countries such as Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Algeria, Syria, Iran, and Morocco.
  • Senegal: Abusive Teachers Sentenced
    Press release
    Sep 8, 2010
    The arrest and conviction of seven Quranic teachers who forced boys trusted to their care to beg is a significant move forward for children’s rights in Senegal. The men were sentenced on September 8, 2010, marking the first application of a 2005 law outlawing the practice; two more men are scheduled to face the same charges on September 9.
  • Spain: Migrant Children at Risk
    Press release
    Jun 22, 2010
    Canary Islands government’s decision to keep more than 250 unaccompanied migrant children in unregulated emergency shelters puts the children at risk and threatens their well-being.
  • California: From Foster Children to Homeless Adults
    Press release
    May 12, 2010
    California is creating homeless adults by failing to ensure that youth in foster care are given the support to live independently as adults and by ending state support abruptly. The state should provide financial support, connections with adults, shelter, and other safety nets for young people as they make the transition toward independence.
  • Senegal: Boys in Many Quranic Schools Suffer Severe Abuse
    Press release
    Apr 15, 2010
    Tens of thousands of children at residential Quranic schools in Senegal are subjected to slavery-like conditions and severely abused. Senegalese authorities should regulate all Quranic schools and take immediate and concerted action to hold accountable teachers who violate Senegalese laws against forced begging and child abuse.
  • Letter to French Minister of Immigration, Integration, National identity and Solidary development
    Letter
    Nov 10, 2009
  • DR Congo: Rights Panel Condemns Abuses Against Children
    Press release
    Feb 4, 2009
    The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo should urgently carry out new recommendations from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to protect children from violence and abuse.
  • Rapport alternatif de la CODE sur la mise en oeuvre de la Convention relative aux droits de l’enfant en RDC
    Testimony
    Sep 1, 2008
  • Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child for the Period Review of the DRC
    Testimony
    Aug 22, 2008
    In this submission to the committee, Human Rights Watch presents information on child soldiers, children in detention, sexual violence against girls, and abuses against street children in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • Universal Periodic Review of Guatemala
    Written statement
    May 4, 2008
    The country continues to face high levels of violence associated with both electoral politics and common crime. Guatemala’s weak and corrupt law enforcement institutions have proven incapable of containing the powerful organized crime groups that, among other things, are believed responsible for continuing attacks on human rights defenders.